Karen Skinner

3 weeks ago | attorneyatwork.com | David Skinner |Karen Skinner

Flat fees only work when you manage the work well. That’s where these legal project management tips come in — to ensure flat fee profitability. We’ve been reading a lot lately about AI’s impact on hourly fees. When you sell time, being able to get something in 10 minutes that used to take you three hours isn’t really a benefit, is it? However, when you sell a transformation or a result — when your services have a value independent of time — it doesn’t matter how long you take.

2 months ago | attorneyatwork.com | David Skinner |Karen Skinner

Yes, you can use Chat GPT to streamline your tech stack audit, pinpoint overlapping features and help eliminate unnecessary spending for your law firm! Here’s how. Technology enables us to practice at our peak, but with legal technology platforms and productivity apps constantly adding new features, we started to wonder if we’re overpaying — and underusing what we had. Manually comparing everything in our tech stack seemed overwhelming.

Mar 6, 2025 | attorneyatwork.com | Karen Skinner |David Skinner |Jay Harrington

Are your meetings helping or hurting your firm? Try these five strategies for making your meetings more efficient and valuable … and see how much time you save. Meetings are a necessary part of running a law firm, but let’s be honest: most of them are a colossal waste of time. According to the recent Fellow Report on the State of Meetings, the average person spends over 11 hours a week in meetings.

Feb 6, 2025 | attorneyatwork.com | Karen Skinner |David Skinner |Jay Harrington

By creating a clear process for managing your inbox, you’ll be able to delegate the work confidently and effectively and save yourself hours of time every day. How many emails do you get every day? According to research, the average person gets over 120 emails a day and spends over 15 hours a week dealing with them all. By delegating email management, you can dramatically reduce the time you spend in your inbox and free up hours a day for higher-value work.